Claire Beckett: Defense Language — Soldiers Rehearsing for War
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Claire Beckett spent years photographing the fake villages and role-player-populated sets the US military uses to train soldiers before combat. The book, Defense Language, is out now via GOST Books — it's a document of places built to simulate reality, photographed before anyone fires a shot in the real thing.
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